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Bill Gates in 1983 Teen Beat Magazine

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ok-i-just-gotta-do-it dept.

So normally I resist the temptation to post this sort of thing because it just seems like a cheap shot, but I just can't hold back on this one, so Bill, if you're reading this (ya right ;) I'm sorry, but I just have to share this one. And I hope in 2021 I'm a billionaire and people are posting my yearbook pictures to take cheap shots at me too! Anyway, We recently found pictures of a photo spread Mr. Gates did in 1983 for Teen Beat magazine. Enjoy.

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  1. wow... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Mirror

  2. Mirror here by Didion+Sprague · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mirror (seems to work):

    http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/b45b564dd93222faa 7fc0335836835d1/index.html

  3. Mirrordot Mirror by SirPrize · · Score: 1, Informative

    This seems to have got the images: MirrorDot

  4. Try mirrordot.org. by AltGrendel · · Score: 2, Informative

    Try here.

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  5. Gizmodo has it too by McLusky · · Score: 2, Informative

    here

  6. Mac in the corner by Racher · · Score: 2, Informative

    It looks like their an origianl developement Mac 128k in the corner of the desk. Possibly for working on / testing the first versions of MacWrite?

  7. Re:Uh by SomeoneGotMyNick · · Score: 2, Informative

    This link talks about Microsoft being a 3rd party developer for Apple in 1983.

  8. Re:Mac in the Back by metlin · · Score: 1, Informative

    Well, back then Microsoft was in fact writing software for the Mac - that could be the reason why there is a Mac in the background.

  9. Re:Uh by hcdejong · · Score: 2, Informative

    AFAIK Microsoft had access to Macs before the introduction.

  10. Editor training by Knights+who+say+'INT · · Score: 5, Informative

    These are NOT a "Teen Beat" magazine photoshoot.

    These are pictures of mr. Gates POSING LIKE models usually pose for "Teen Beat". I mean, like, learn to read.

    Tsk.

  11. Re:1983? by Hank+Scorpio · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually, if you look at the EXIF tags inside the JPG files, you will see the following comment:

    Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, reclines on his desk in his office soon after the release of Windows 1.0. 1985 Bellevue, Washington, USA

    And, here is the original image in Corbis.

    So, as always, Slashdot is wrong. It is from 1985, not 1983. But, amazingly enough, it actually is Bill Gates, and it is real.

  12. Re:At least come to the photoshoot sober! by Xcott+Craver · · Score: 4, Informative
    That is not pot, but very very long hours spent coding.

    Huge bags under the eyes are the mark of a real programmer---at least, they were in the days before you could display pornography on a personal computer.

    Xcott

  13. Re:What a Heartthrob! by rho · · Score: 4, Informative

    Microsoft was a huge Mac developer back in the day. Microsoft Word became what it is because of its success on the Mac.

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  14. The Mac In The Back by ackthpt · · Score: 2, Informative
    Anyone notice the Mac in the back?

    Even Bill said that the Mac was the best computer, or some such at one time back in the 80's I'm sure the video is still on the internet. It's fun to watch with all the catcalls and hooting going on in the background, perhaps not as entertaining as Ballmer's Monkey-boy Dance.

    What nobody seemed to take seriously at the time was that Gates & Co. would basically rip off the Gui ideas of the Mac and profit wildly from them. Apple should have learned from IBM, you don't give Gates an inch!

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  15. Re:Gates should buy the rights from Corbis by count0 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bill Gates is the founder of Corbis...along with having investments in a lot of other companies.

  16. Re:LOL Blue Screen even then by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    Not necessarily so. In those days, MS probably had early access to the IBM hardware 'cos were "developing" a Disk Operating System for said hardware.

    Same for Apple hardware. Remember that they were developing a WYSIWYG word processor for the Mac.

    {{The story goes that Jobs tried his best to convince the powers at WordPerfect (#1 in those days) to do a WYSIWYG app for the Mac. The WP guys thought that it was a foolish notion (who would want to see what the fonts and the page looked like on the screen any way?)

    Enter BG. MSWord followed by MSExcel came out on the Mac, jumped over to the x'86 platform and eventually wiped out WP, Lotus123 etc.}}